🚨What did it take to survive on a scavenging strategy in the Early Pleistocene 🍴🥩🦁😱🐺? The ROCEEH modeling team participated in an ABM based study led by Jesus Rodríguez, Ana Isabel Caso-Alonso, and Ana Mateos from CENIEH. 👇Check, it's open access.

nature.com/articles/s4159…

We're excited: Our book 'Human Origins – Digital Future' on the 'International Conference about the Future of Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Databases' hosted by ROCEEH is now openly🔓 available!
📕books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/cat…

And we are on!! The site is finally active!! You can download the data here acortell3.shinyapps.io/Archaeo_riddle/ but here some advise first!! +

Our position paper on the need for long-term, trans-disciplinary research in socio-environmental systems was published today in Sustainability, led by Fabio Silva:
mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/1…

Last year we showed how #AI can screen patients for #COVID19 in 1h. Today we’re pleased to share an evaluation & how test time cut to 10min-
CURIAL-Rapide results were available 45min after pts arrived at the front door @OUHhospitals
16min sooner than LFTs
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fantastic news. So proud to be part of this Eynsham and Windrush Medical Practices have been immense. ⁦NIHR CRN Thames Valley and South Midlands⁩ primary care team have been extraordinary bbc.co.uk/news/health-57…

The CAA International Special Interest Group for Scientific Scripting Languages in Archaeology in now on Twitter!

Peace, love and hope - on the shortest day. Good Yule, everyone.

This course has generated interest, so I've decided to share our readings each week to invite new suggestions/reflections, & hopefully demonstrate to our awesome students the good in academic twitter: incl Zhian Chen Maya Szafraniec Joseph Kilgallen Anna M Jaskiewicz Hannah Frogge 🐸.

Still a few more days to the deadline to get your abstracts in! Please spread the call!
Workshop on 'Deep-Time Patterns of Sustainability and Resilience in Socio-Ecological Systems'
arts.kuleuven.be/surplus/worksh…

Looking forward to this later today - EJ Milner-Gulland and Charles Godfray in conversation on 'Resetting our relationship with nature in a post-COVID world' - it's not too late to register
oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/nature-…

Strong & good words: 'Now we have a golden opportunity to show human society the strong link between public policies and environmental outcomes and that cultural inheritance can be changed in a way that favors biodiversity conservation.' Cultural inheritance is key! BIOCHANGE

Our DA @MPI_SHH Southeast Asia seminar talk #3 is happening again tomorrow (22/9 | 12pm CEST). This time A/Prof Dan Penny from SydneyUniGeo will be 'unravelling historical socio-ecological 'collapse' in the global tropics'. All welcome - please DM/email me for the link!

This is a really interesting study that supports the notion that archaeological environmental writing - not of actual past rather than, as clif-fi, of possible futures - can make a difference. I would love to replicate this with archaeology students!

Lots of art therapy these days.

Definition of the derivative. How do we find an expression for the exact slope at a single point, when the slope equation requires two points? 🧵1/9

HUGE Thanks to the IMSET for organizing a fantastic 2-day workshop on #socioecodynamics Fabio Silva @philriris Enrico R. Crema Kees Klein Goldewijk Marco Madella Dr Alice Williams Sophie Monsarrat Kimberley Davies Jens Svenning Patrick Roberts Tatiana Filatova robmarchant Kathy Morrison

Gingerly putting together a new graduate syllabus on ‘Understanding & Dismantling Patriarchy’ from an evolutionary perspective. Starting with classics by Hrdy, Smuts, etc. Would ♥️ any suggestions, especially of recent work, that will really inspire & ⚡️debate. Any thoughts?

Picard programming tip: A computer is like a mischievous genie. It will give you exactly what you ask for, but not always what you want.

Milky Way over St Michaels Mount. A very local #APOD (Astronomy picture of the day) chosen by NASA today. #Cornwall Credit Simon R. Hudson
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200907.…

I've spent a lot of time this past few weeks making my thesis code as reproducible as possible, for future paper-submitting-me and for my lab.
Here's what I learned. (a thread, with gifs!) ⬇️